Sourcing Procurement Manager

Insight Global is looking for a mid-level Sourcing Procurement Manager to join a large industrial manufactuing company sitting onsite in Chattanooga, TN.

In this role, the Sourcing Manager will play a key liaison role between procurement and engineering teams, ensuring strategic sourcing programs are properly built for their new product development plans, including communicating requirements, identifying new suppliers, and developing existing suppliers. This role will oversee and support the strategic procurement process, so it's important for this individual to have prior ownership experience over strategic sourcing. As well, because this is in an industrial engineering environment, prior education and experience in industrial manufacturing/engineer experience is required.

This is a full-time, permanent role with competitive salary and benefits.

Primary responsibilities:

• Participate in new product development by coordinating all sourcing and supplier qualification activities
• Purchase materials and services as required to support sourcing activities
• Lead supplier qualification processes alongside Quality by identifying, validating, and selecting new suppliers
• Review supplier performance, manage related performance metrics, and adjust supplier sourcing as needed
• Review new product releases and engineering changes and attend design reviews to communicate ongoing needs to Procurement and Quality
• Manage new model or engineering change parts sourcing and cost establishment
• Work with engineering to implement cost saving activities concurrent with new model development/implementation
• Support new product development and ECO process by submitting change requests, preparing print packages for RFQs, identifying suppliers to quote, analyzing quotes, and working with SQE to communicate quality requirements
• Develop category and product knowledge for: fabricated and cast components, mechanical components, power train systems, fluid transfer & control, hydraulic and pneumatic components, electronics and electrical components, etc.

Required skills and experience:

• BS Degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering
• 3 years of experience in sourcing and procurement and familiarity with manufacturing and industrial operations
• Experience sourcing and purchasing fabricated and cast components, mechanical components, power train systems, fluid transfer & control, hydraulic and pneumatic components, electronics and electrical components
• Cost accounting knowledge and material cost knowledge
• SAP experience including MRP, Purchasing, Engineering Control, BOM, Quality Control, and Warehouse
• Strong in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI, and Visio
• Must be willing to travel up to 15% to supplier facilities